Residents Forced Out While Gas Pipe Capped

East Hartford Police News

July 23, 1997

Some Forest Street residents were told to leave their homes Tuesday afternoon when workers broke a gas line.

Residents in eight homes on the street were told to go into their back yards while the pipe was capped, said fire Capt. John R. Colli. It took about a half hour to cap the pipe; no one was hurt, he said.

Bill Coons, the vice president of CAS Construction Co. of Cromwell, which is installing sewer lines in the area, said the pipe that broke wasn't properly marked. Workers were careful to avoid another pipe that was marked, he said.